Nudi Pixel: Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs Identification with Photographs

Hans Tibboel

Hans Tibboel was born in The Netherlands but left his homeland for the tropics at age 24. He learned to dive in Chumpon, Thailand in 1991 and has never left the water ever since. Thailand became his new home as he worked as Divemaster and Instructor in Chumporn and Krabi before finally settling down in Phuket.

Hans currently holds a Master Instructor rating, has logged well over 6000 dives and has a passion for nudibranchs, flatworms, saron, harlequin and tozeuma shrimps, weird looking creatures and sharks. He has been fortunate enough to dive some remote islets and pinnacles in the Sangihe Archipelago (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) and to find a new species of nudibranch (“Glossodoris tibboeli”). He hopes his future will bring him to destinations like the Philippines, South Africa, Mozambique, Costa Rica’s Cocos island, the Bahamas and many-many more times back to North Sulawesi and Indonesia.

More importantly though is that he will get a “real” job and finally start to make some money to be able to visit and dive those places!